Authors whose first name starts with C, page 8 of 8

Connie Willis

59 books• 8 series

Connie Willis, born Constance Elaine Trimmer on December 31, 1945, is an American science fiction and fantasy writer with eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Blackout/All Clear (2010) won both the Hugo and the Nebula for Best Novel. Several Willis novels send Oxford history students back in time, and that group forms the Oxford Time Travel series. Willis entered the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2009 and was named the 28th SFWA Grand Master in 2011. The Road to Roswell (2023) is the latest novel in the catalogue, and The Spanner in the Works is listed for 2027.

Connilyn Cossette writes Biblical fiction, with 18 books in the catalogue published from 2016 to 2026. Counted with the Stars (2016) is the earliest, followed by Shadow of the Storm (2016) and Wings of the Wind (2017). Throne of the Heavens (2026) is the newest release. Cossette series include Out From Egypt, Cities of Refuge, Covenant House and King's Men. Subjects include the Exodus, Christian fiction, Christian romance, historical fiction and plagues.

Connor Sullivan writes political and espionage thrillers. Two books carry the name: Sleeping Bear (2021) and Wolf Trap (2023). Both sit in suspense and spy fiction rather than in any longer sequence, and no further Connor Sullivan title has been recorded since 2023.

Conor Fitzgerald writes police procedurals set in Rome. Commissario Alec Blume is the recurring investigator across all 6 catalogued books, which run from The Dogs Of Rome (2010) to Cardinal Witness (2017), taking in The Fatal Touch and The Namesake in 2011, The Memory Theater, also published as The Memory Key, in 2013, and Bitter Remedy in 2014. Murder, missing persons and criminal investigation drive the cases.

Conrad Jones writes thrillers and suspense. Terrorism, terrorists, the Middle East and English settings recur as subjects, and Detective Superintendent Alec Ramsay is the standing detective. The catalogue holds 60 books published between 2008 and 2027, opening with Soft Target (2008) and reaching Auschwitz in 2026, with Hunting the Nine Angels listed for 2027. Jones's series include the Anglesey Murders, Detective Alec Ramsay, Soft Target, the Hunting Angels Diaries, DI Braddick, Cuckoos on the Mersey and Detective Alan Williams. A non-fiction strand on publishing and selling e-books sits beside the fiction.

Conrad Richter (1890-1968) was an American novelist of the frontier, writing about pioneer life across several periods and places. The Awakening Land trilogy - The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946) and The Town (1950) - covers the Ohio frontier, and The Town took the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951. The Waters of Kronos won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1961. The Sea of Grass (1936) opened the catalogue and The Light in the Forest (1953) heads a second series. Eighteen titles are catalogued, story collections published after Richter's death among them.

Cora Brent writes contemporary romance, per the catalogue subjects. The 43 catalogued books start with Draw (2014), Married with Mayhem (2025) is the latest release, and Coldest Outlaw is due in 2027. Series include Gentry Boys, Gentry Generations, Defiant Motorcycle Club, Ruins of Emblem, Wicked West Rejects and Storm's Eye Ranch.

Cora Carmack writes contemporary romance and, later, fantasy. Losing It opened the catalogue in 2012 and gave its name to a series continued in Faking It and Finding It. The Rusk University books put college students and football players in Texas, and Stormheart, also catalogued as Stealing Storms, brings in magic. Thirteen books run to Reign in 2025, and Carmack continues to publish.

Cora Harrison is an Irish author of historical detective fiction and of books for children. The Burren Mysteries, set in 16th-century west Ireland, and the Reverend Mother Mystery series, set in 1920s Cork during the Irish Civil War, are two of Harrison's crime sequences; a third puts Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins to work as amateur detectives in 19th-century London. The catalogue holds 67 books from Nuala and Her Secret Wolf (1997) to Murder in the Mist (2023), including the Drumshee Timeline and Drumshee Chronicles, Willowgrove Village Mysteries and Hugh Mac Egan Mysteries.

Organised crime and the families inside it drive Cora Reilly's romance novels. 33 catalogued books run from Bound by Honor (2014) to The Madman and His Broken Princess, with Bound by Duty, Bound by Hatred and Bound by Temptation following in 2015. The Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles and The Camorra Chronicles are Reilly's principal series, joined by Sins of the Fathers, Tough Games and Five-Leaf Clover. Reilly remains actively publishing.

Cora Rose has 44 books in the catalogue, from Stiltskin Inc. (2016) to Caleb (2026). Always Him, Until Him, Emery, Lex, Luke, Sem and Whit all date from 2022, and Exception and A Minute More followed in 2023. Rose series include Firm, Behind the Camera, Unexpectedly Twisted, Our Exception, Deaf Hearts, Feed and Feast, Knot Wanted, Homegrown Hearts and Murder Hearts.

Cora Seton writes romance set around ranch life and the recurring town of Chance Creek. Six series carry that name, SEALs of Chance Creek, Heroes of Chance Creek, Brides of Chance Creek, Turners vs Coopers of Chance Creek, Elliotts of Chance Creek and Holidays of Chance Creek, beside a Beach House Trilogy. The 45 catalogued books run from The Cowboy's E-Mail Order Bride (2013) to House for Sale: Soldier Included (2024). Mail order brides and the United States Army also appear in the subjects.

Coralee June writes romance in series and duets. Wings of the Walker (2017) opens 37 catalogued books that reach Level Him Up (2024). Nine series divide the run: Walker, Bullets, Bloody Royals, Malice Mafia, Phase Mountain Pack, Her Office, Her City, the Debt of Passion Duet and the Twisted Legacy Duet. June continues to publish.

Corban Addison, an American author, holds a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law and a mechanical engineering degree from Cal Poly. Addison writes fiction and non-fiction alike: human trafficking, child trafficking victims and disaster survivors carry the novels, from A Walk Across the Sun (2011) through The Garden of Burning Sand (2013), The Tears of Dark Water (2015) and A Harvest of Thorns (2017). Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial (2022) is the non-fiction. Five titles are catalogued, with nothing since 2022.

Corinne Michaels writes contemporary romance, with military and Navy SEAL themes and romantic suspense among the subjects. The catalogue counts 44 books from 2014 to 2026, beginning with Beloved and Beholden (2014), followed by Consolation and Conviction (2015). Later titles include Say You'll Stay (2016) and We Own Tonight (2017). Series include Return to Me, Arrowood Brothers, Willow Creek Valley, Whitlock Family, Ember Falls and Rose Canyon. The newest title is Come What May (2026).

Cormac McCarthy

17 books• 3 series

Cormac McCarthy's fiction moves from Tennessee to the ranch country of the American West, with fathers and sons, brothers and sisters, and psychological pressure as its material. The Orchard Keeper (1965) opens the catalogue, followed by Outer Dark (1968), Child of God (1973), Suttree (1979), Blood Meridian (1985), All the Pretty Horses (1992) and The Crossing (1994). Plays and screenplays are catalogued beside the novels, and the listing reaches a graphic novel adaptation of The Road in 2024.

Cornelia Funke

51 books• 9 series

Cornelia Funke (Cornelia Maria Funke, born 10 December 1958 in Dorsten) is a German author of children's fiction, called Germany's bestselling author for children. Funke worked as a social worker and then a book illustrator, began writing novels in the late 1980s and writes mostly fantasy about children facing adversity. The catalogue lists 51 books from Ghosthunters and the Incredibly Revolting Ghost (1993) to The Green Kingdom (2025), including Dragon Rider (1997) and The Thief Lord (2000). Inkheart/Inkworld and MirrorWorld are series.

Cornell Woolrich

61 books• 1 series

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who also published as William Irish and George Hopley. Crime and suspense fill the catalogue: 61 books from Cover Charge (1926) onward, the 1940s the busiest decade, with The Bride Wore Black (1940), The Black Curtain (1941) and Black Alibi (1942) among them. Biographer Francis Nevins Jr. rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) came from the 1942 story It Had to Be Murder, and François Truffaut filmed The Bride Wore Black in 1968.

Corrie ten Boom

32 books• 1 series

Corrie ten Boom (1892-1983) was a Dutch watchmaker who became a Christian writer and public speaker. Arrested for sheltering Jewish people from the Nazis in her family home, ten Boom was imprisoned at the Ravensbruck concentration camp, and The Hiding Place (1971) is her autobiography of those years. Her 32 catalogued books run from Amazing Love (1953) to a 2022 illustrated edition of The Hiding Place, and return to Christian life, consolation and wartime testimony.

Cory Doctorow

48 books• 4 series

Cory Doctorow, born 17 July 1971, is a Canadian-British science fiction author, journalist and blogger who co-edited Boing Boing. Doctorow campaigns for looser copyright law and supports Creative Commons, releasing some books under its licences. Digital rights management, file sharing and post-scarcity economics recur in the fiction. The catalogue counts 48 books, from A Place So Foreign and Eight More (2000) through Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003) and Eastern Standard Tribe (2004) to The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (2026). Little Brother and Martin Hench are the series.

Cozy mystery, much of it with cats in it, is Courtney McFarlin's line. 60 books are catalogued between Escape From Danger (2020) and The Man Who Vanished (2026). Seven series carry the run: A Razzy Cat Cozy Mystery, the Clowder Cats, Millie the Miracle Cat, Soul Seeker, Finn and Briar, Escape from Reality and A Siren's Song Paranormal Cozy Mystery. Publication is ongoing.

Courtney Milan is the pen name of Heidi Bond, a bestselling writer of historical romance, much of it Victorian. Raised in Southern California, she wrote her first book at ten, then took a double major in mathematics and chemistry at Florida State University in 2000 and a master's in physical chemistry at UC Berkeley in 2003, researching computer models of glassy behaviour. Her series include the Brothers Sinister, the Worth Saga, Carhart, Cyclone and the Wedgeford Trials. Thirty-eight titles run from Proof by Seduction (2009) to The Earl Who Isn't (2024).

Courtney Walsh has 33 books catalogued between 2007 and 2027. The earliest are scrapbooking titles, Scrapbooking Your Faith (2007) and The Busy Scrapper (2008). Three Sweethaven books appeared in 2012, and Paper Hearts followed in 2014. Brighter than Before (2026) is the latest release, with As Luck Would Have It due in 2027. Series listed are Sweethaven Circle, Holidays With Hart and Paper Hearts. Christian romance, female friendship, family secrets, first loves and photographs appear in the subject tags.

Craig Alanson is the pen name of Craig Odell, an American author and audio playwright working in science fiction and fantasy. Expeditionary Force is the series most associated with the Alanson name. The catalogue holds 34 books published between 2016 and 2026, from Aces (2016) to Last Ride (2026), and also lists the Ascendant and Expeditionary Force Mavericks sequences. Subjects include space warfare, interstellar travel, extraterrestrial beings and human-alien encounters.

Craig DiLouie writes horror, science fiction and military fiction. The Infection novels and Tooth and Nail (2010) take up an outbreak and its aftermath; Suffer the Children (2014) turns to vampires; the Crash Dive and Armor series and Aviator: Stories of Future Wars handle submarine, tank and air warfare. Conspiracies and secret societies run through the earlier books, starting at Paranoia (2001). Thirty-six titles reach Dien Bien Phu (2026).

Craig Halloran writes fantasy, with 107 books catalogued from Wrath of the Royals (2009) to Blood of the Warborn (2026). Named series include Dragon Wars, Chronicles of Dragon, the Darkslayer books, the Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files, Henchmen Chronicles, Savage and the Sorcerer and Clash of Heroes. Dragons and adventure appear among the subject headings. Zombie Day Care (2009), Blades in the Night (2011) and Dragon Bones and Tombstones (2013) are among the earlier titles.

Craig Johnson has 32 books in the catalogue, from The Cold Dish (2004) to The Brothers McKay (2026). Walt Longmire is the recurring character, and the subject headings list sheriffs, Wyoming, westerns and police procedural mystery. Early titles include Death Without Company (2006), Kindness Goes Unpunished (2007) and Another Man's Moccasins (2008). The Johnson list also carries Walt Longmire short stories and novellas plus standalone novels.

Craig Martelle's catalogue opens in 2016 with Cygnus Rising: Humanity Returns to Space and Cygnus Expanding: Humanity Fights for Freedom and holds 136 books through Home Front (2026), with Deadhand's Vengeance due in 2027. Nightwalker, Darklanding, Glory, Free Trader, Ian Bragg Thriller, I, Soldier, Battleship: Leviathan, End Days and Starship Lost are among the series, alongside a Successful Indie Author non-fiction line and Couple's Travels. Science fiction and fantasy are the listed subjects, and Terry Henry Walton is a linked character. Endure, Free the North! and Free Trader on the High Seas are other 2016 titles.

Craig Parshall wrote 14 books catalogued between 2002 and 2018, starting with The Resurrection File (2002). Parshall's series are Chambers of Justice, Thistle and the Cross and Trevor Black, and Will Chambers appears among the subjects as a fictitious character. Other subjects include murder, child custody, child abuse, clergy, Scots, parenting and the Christian education of children. Later titles include Custody of the State, Missing Witness, Crown of Fire and Captives and Kings. The Empowered (2018) is the newest title, and the catalogue is marked likely complete.

Craig Rice

25 books• 3 series

Craig Rice, born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig on June 5, 1908, was an American writer of mystery novels and short stories who died on August 28, 1957. The critic Bill Ruehlmann called Rice the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction. Catalogue subjects include humorous mysteries, Chicago, murder and the character Jake Justus, and the series credited to Rice are John J. Malone and Gypsy Rose Lee Plays. Early titles include Eight Faces at Three (1939), The Corpse Steps Out (1940), The Wrong Murder (1940) and Trial by Fury (1941).

Craig Robertson writes crime fiction set in Scotland. The Narey & Winter series is Robertson's one named sequence, with Tony Winter as a recurring character. Ten books run from Random (2010) to The Grapevine (2026), by way of Snapshot (2011), Cold Grave (2012), Witness the Dead (2013), The Last Refuge (2014), In Place of Death (2015), Murderabilia (2016), The Photographer (2018) and Watch Him Die (2020). Serial murder investigation, vigilantes and police procedure recur as subjects.

Craig Russell

16 books• 3 series

Craig Russell is a Scottish novelist and short story writer who also publishes as Christopher Galt. His Jan Fabel thrillers, set in Hamburg and turning on serial murder investigations, have been translated into 23 languages; Russell speaks fluent German and follows post-war German history closely, and the Hamburg Police awarded him the Polizeistern in February 2007, the only non-German to receive it. The Lennox novels move to Glasgow, and The Devil Aspect stands alone. Historical and mythological material runs through the work. Sixteen books span 2005 to 2023, from Blood Eagle to The Devil's Playground.

Craig Thomas (1942-2011) was a Welsh thriller writer working in espionage and spy fiction. Two series carry his name: Mitchell Gant, opening with Firefox (1977) and continuing in Firefox Down! (1983), and the Kenneth Aubrey and Patrick Hyde novels. Soviet fighter aircraft, terrorists and the question of German reunification supply the material. Eighteen titles span Rat Trap (1976) to Slipping into Shadow (1998), two of them published as David Grant, at a median of 492 pages.

Cressida Cowell

61 books• 12 series

Cressida Cowell, born Cressida Hare on 15 April 1966, is a British children's author. How to Train Your Dragon is the series Cowell is best known for; DreamWorks Animation adapted the series into a media franchise, and by 2015 the books had sold more than seven million copies worldwide. Cowell also writes the Emily Brown stories with illustrator Neal Layton, and the first, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown, won a Nestle Children's Book Award. The catalogue lists 61 books to 2025, with subjects such as dragons, Vikings, humorous stories and the character Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III. Other series include The Wizards of Once and Which Way To Anywhere.

Cressida McLaughlin writes contemporary romance set in English places that double as businesses: the Canal Boat Café, the Cornish Cream Tea bus and the Secret Bookshop each anchor a series. Dogs and dog walking recur through the books, starting with A Christmas Tail (2015). Eighteen titles reach A Cornish Love Story (2025).

Creston Mapes writes Christian suspense. Journalists and reporters, stalkers and terrorists make up the recurring cast of 10 catalogued books, which run from Fear Has a Name (2005) to Who Is My Neighbor (2025). Poison Town and Sky Zone both appeared in 2014, and the run continued through Let My Daughter Go (2020), Charm Artist (2021) and Secrets in Shadows (2023).

Cristin Harber writes romantic suspense and erotic romance, with 38 books catalogued from 2013 to 2026. Chased, Gambled, Garrison's Creed, Westin's Chase and Winters Heat all appeared in 2013. Hart Attack, Retribution, Savage Secrets and Sweet Girl followed in 2014, and Black Dawn in 2015. Lost and Found (2026) is the latest title. Aces, Delta and Titan Protectors are the series on the author page. Undercover operations and first loves appear in the subject tags.

Cristina Alger writes thrillers set among wealth and finance. Her 4 catalogued books are The Darlings (2012), This Was Not the Plan (2016), The Banker's Wife (2018) and Girls Like Us (2019). Financial crises, investment bankers, the upper class, family secrets and women journalists recur as subjects. No book has followed 2019.

Minecraft and video games are the subject matter of Cube Kid's 24 catalogued books, which are listed as children's and middle grade fiction with fantasy and adventure elements. The list runs from 2015 to The Epic Feast (2026) and includes Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior (2016), From Seeds to Swords (2016), Crafting Alliances (2017) and Path of the Diamond (2017). Series include Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior, A Noob's Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior, Diary of a Wimpy Villager, Nether Kitten and Tales of an 8-Bit Kitten.

Curtis Sittenfeld

14 books• 2 series

Prep (2005) is the first of 14 books the catalogue lists for American writer Curtis Sittenfeld; the most recent is Show Don't Tell (2025). The run includes The Man of My Dreams (2006), American Wife (2008), Sisterland (2013), Eligible (2016) and You Think It, I'll Say It (2017). Subjects include preparatory school students, teenage girls, sisters, presidents' spouses, women librarians and family life, and New York Times reviewed appears among the tags.

Cynthia Baxter's catalogue holds 58 books published between 1981 and 2020. Mystery and detective fiction leads the recorded subjects, which name women sleuths, murder, private investigators, women veterinarians, twins and the fictitious character Jessica Popper; horror tales and children's fiction also appear. Once There Was a Fat Girl (1981) is the listed first title and Game of Cones (2020) the most recent. Series credited to Baxter include Reigning Cats & Dogs Mystery, Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe Mystery, Murder Packs A Suitcase Mysteries, Pratt Twins, Bubble Gum Gang Mysteries and Dark Moon Legacy. The run is likely complete.

Cynthia Eden writes romantic suspense and paranormal romance, and the catalogue runs from The Vampire's Kiss (2005) to Ice Covered Heart (2026). Subjects include vampires, serial murder investigation, the FBI and Atlanta. Series include Wilde Ways, Ice Breaker Cold Case, Shadow Agents: Guts and Glory, LOST/Last Option Search Team, Killer Instinct, Lazarus Rising, Battling McGuire Boys, Bad Things, Trouble For Hire and Phoenix Fire. Early titles include The Wizard's Spell (2006), Hotter After Midnight (2008) and Midnight Sins (2008). The listing also carries several volumes of the Secrets anthology from 2005 to 2008.

Cynthia Hand has 10 books in the catalogue, published from 2011 to 2021. The first four are Unearthly (2011), Hallowed (2012), Radiant (2012) and Boundless (2013), and angels, the supernatural and Wyoming are among the catalogued subjects. Later titles include My Lady Jane (2016), The Afterlife of Holly Chase (2017), My Plain Jane (2018) and The How and the Why (2019). With You All the Way (2021) is the latest, and Cynthia Hand is listed as dormant.

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles is a British novelist of historical, romance and mystery fiction, born 13 August 1948 at Shepherd's Bush, London. The first Harrod-Eagles novel was written in 1972, during university. Most books carry the author's own name, though Emma Woodhouse and Elizabeth Bennett have also served as pseudonyms, and several 1970s titles on file appear as Emma Woodhouse. The catalogue lists 115 books from 1974 to 2026, and series include Morland Dynasty, Bill Slider, War At Home, Ashmore Castle and the Kirov Trilogy. Deadly Force (2026) is the newest.

Seven books carry Cynthia Murphy's name, all published between 2021 and 2025: Last One to Die, Win Lose Kill Die, A Taste of Darkness, The Midnight Game, Welcome to Camp Killer, Signed Sealed Dead and Keep Your Friends Close. Murphy is an English writer of young adult thrillers, born in 1984 as Cynthia Mary Power. Her first three novels each took the Lancashire Book of the Year award, in three consecutive years. Murphy is still publishing.

Victoria Trumbull, an elderly poet who investigates murders on Martha's Vineyard, is the detective Cynthia Riggs writes. The Martha's Vineyard Mystery series accounts for all 14 of Riggs's catalogued books, opening with Deadly Nightshade (2001) and closing with Widow's Wreath (2018). Titles across the run take their names from plants: The Cranefly Orchid Murders, The Paperwhite Narcissus, Indian Pipes, Touch-Me-Not and The Bee Balm Murders. Nothing new has appeared since 2018, so the series reads as finished.

Cynthia Rylant, born Cynthia Smith on June 6, 1954, is an American author and librarian who has written more than 100 children's books across picture books, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poetry. Missing May took the 1993 Newbery Medal, A Fine White Dust was a 1987 Newbery Honor book, and two further titles are Caldecott Honor Books. The catalogue records 229 books from When I Was Young in the Mountains (1982) onward, with series including Henry and Mudge, Mr. Putter & Tabby, Poppleton and the Lighthouse Family.

Cynthia Voigt writes for young adults, on adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. The Tillerman Cycle opens her catalogue with Homecoming (1981), which was adapted as a film in 1996, and Dicey's Song won the Newbery Medal in 1983. Other sequences include Tales of the Kingdom, Bad Girls, Davis Farm and Mister Max. The American author, born in 1942, received the American Library Association's Margaret Edwards Award in 1995 for her writing for teenagers. Thirty-seven titles are catalogued, published between 1981 and 2020 and reaching Little Bird (2020).

Cynthia Wright has written historical romance since 1977, when Rescued by a Rogue, also published as Caroline, opened the catalogue. The Rakes & Rebels universe carries most of the work, split between the Raveneau and Beauvisage families, with Crowns & Kilts and Rogues Go West alongside. Twenty-six titles run to His Fiery Angel in 2024, among them Touch the Sun (1978), Silver Storm (1979), Spring Fires (1983) and You and No Other (1984). Wright has also published as Devon Lindsay.

Cyril Hare was the pseudonym of Alfred Alexander Gordon Clark, an English barrister and judge who lived from 1900 to 1958 and wrote crime fiction on the side. The legal world runs through the books, Tragedy at Law (1942) among them. Inspector Mallett and the lawyer Francis Pettigrew head the two series and meet in a third. Thirteen titles are catalogued, from Tenant for Death (1937) to the Best Detective Stories collection of 1959.